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-day and future flood and drought hazard maps. The paper defines and calculates a ?poverty exposure bias? and finds support …
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both complementary interventions provide full protection against drought shocks two years after the end of the intervention … based on randomized assignment, and analyze how impacts vary by exposure to exogenous drought shocks. The results show that … interventions led to diversification of economic activities and better protection from shocks compared to beneficiaries of the basic …
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Egypt. Farm net revenue were regressed against climate, soil, socioeconomic and hydrological variables to determine which … temperatures will constrain agricultural production in Egypt. Irrigation and technology are therefore the recommended adaptation …
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This paper measures the economic impact of climate on crops in Kenya. The analysis is based on cross-sectional climate … these, and also constraints on adaptation mechanisms. The results suggest that farmers in Kenya are aware of short …
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Understanding the magnitude and importance of income shocks, such as drought or conflict, in causing and perpetuating …. This paper uses micro-data from two waves of the Somali High Frequency Survey to assess the impact of the severe drought … quantify the effects of the drought, relying on spatial variation in drought exposure and the timing of data collection, which …
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vulnerability to poverty using the example of drought hazard impacts on the welfare of rural households in Ethiopia. The aim is to … expenditure/consumption outcomes, onto a forward-looking view of drought risk. The paper outlines the CAT risk modeling framework … construction. Results for a regression model are presented, estimating ex-post drought impacts on consumption for heterogeneous …
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. Analyzing, in particular, the Livelihoods, Early Assessment and Protection tool, Livelihood Integrated Assessment and Hotspots … early warning framework and its use that could facilitate greater timeliness of drought response. The paper argues that … enable early action during the onset of a drought …
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Although weather shocks are a major source of income fluctuation, most of the world's poor lack insurance coverage against them. Absence of formal insurance contributes to poverty traps, as investment decisions are conflicted with risk management ones: risk-averse farmers tend to underinvest and...
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voters reward the incumbent presidential party for delivering drought relief compensation. The paper finds that receiving …
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Three recent rounds (2003, 2006, and 2009) of the Family Income and Expenditure Survey are matched to rainfall data from 43 rainfall stations in the Philippines to quantify the extent to which unusual weather has any negative effects on the consumption of Filipino households. It is found that...
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